Embodied Alchemy: Touch the Universe
The human body is a marvel of creation, a perfect system of interconnected parts that function together to help us survive and thrive.
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Philosophy
A collection of 491 articles
The embodied mind in motion: a neuroscientific and philosophical perspective on prevention and therapy of dementia
The embodied mind in motion is a concept in which health and well-being, prevention and therapy, as well as lifestyle and habits meet.
Ultimately, the Netherlands has no actual constitution—Part 2: Arbitrary Rule
In the first part of this two-part article on the Dutch 'constitution', I pointed out its strongly relativistic nature. We saw that it is subjectivist, irrationalist popular sovereignty, wanting to be like God, that governs minds. If such a mind is at work in a people, such a people is
Creating a World of Distrust
I remember a time when people were left to their own devices when determining what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Remember “Bat Boy?” A strange Weekly World News (sister tabloid to the National Enquirer) creation set to terrorize and dismay. Did anyone really believe this? I doubt
No one is crowing now
Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger:
It is the first time the crows did not come in the morning.
Killing Us Softly
We have, for quite some time, been exposed to a myriad of silent killers.
Death by Pixels
I am living out my days in what once was a forested community but now a growing suburbia of machines and city noise.
There Is No Escape From Telling
By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles, clawed together as they tumbled, wrestling in the green morning breeze above our heads. They perched upon a branch and sang a
Art Equals Human—Not Anymore
When I was a young lad of 11, I was fascinated with computers, or what little there was of them at the time.
Positive Thinking
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
I keep trying to feel good, and I try to see the good in my life, the things that I am grateful for, and the beauty all around me.
I don’t think I have a problem with this, as long as it doesn’
Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
George Washington
What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry. What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful
10 Sad Reasons Why So Many Great People Stay Single Forever
Although the majority of people marry or live with their partner, there are those who stay single forever.
If Ignorance is Bliss, Awareness is Pain
I visited with a distressed friend recently.
Thinking action as a performative and participative mental awareness
This paper seeks to evaluate experiential facets of thinking action using first-person phenomenological methods.
Clarifying the relation between mechanistic explanations and reductionism
The topic of mechanistic explanation in neuroscience has been a subject of recent discussion.
